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China’s One Belt, One Road: Will it reshape global trade?

One Belt, One Road (OBOR) has the potential to be the world’s largest trade platform, encompassing one-third of global GDP OBOR’s success will depend on the availability of massive funds and the ability to properly deploy those funds Enthusiasm for OBOR has so far been fairly strong, and many parties are invested in making it

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What’s next for China’s booming fintech sector?

The fast and furious growth of the country’s Internet finance industry will inevitably slow. Companies need to begin positioning themselves for sustainable success. China’s Internet finance industry has boomed in recent years. The country leads the world when it comes to total users and market size; financial-technology (or fintech) start-ups are mushrooming, as are company

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Green Innovations: New technologies that could transform how industry uses energy

As the world grows in both wealth and population, so will the demand for energy: global primary-energy consumption is on course to increase 25 percent between now and 2030. At the same time, concerns over pollution and climate change are forcing business and government to think hard about how they produce and use energy.

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The emerging trillion-dollar market for health and wellness

It’s a demographic sweet spot of enormous potential. With the developed world (Japan, Europe and to a lesser extent, the US) getting older, and emerging markets getting both bigger and richer, the market for things that make consumers healthier is set to expand. And it is already a very big deal (see chart).

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How big data can improve manufacturing

In the past 20 years or so, manufacturers have been able to reduce waste and variability in their production processes and dramatically improve product quality and yield (the amount of output per unit of input) by implementing lean and Six Sigma programs.However, in certain processing environments—pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and mining, for instance—extreme variability is a fact

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